Use as an accompaniment to Frank Stockton's "The Lady, or the Tiger?" to create background knowledge of gladiatorial "justice" in Ancient Rome. Focus areas include: Vocabulary in Context, Inferences, Summarizing, Author's Credentials, Summarizing,

Use this activity during those final days before Winter Break. This organizer asks students to look back at their year and reflect on things that make them who they are today. Easy to incorporate as a "time capsule" lesson.

Use this article in conjunction with an Edgar Allan Poe unit. It explains the mystery surrounding Poe's untimely death and uses evidence and expert testimony to suggest that Poe died of rabies! Special focus is placed on informational text

Use this article prior to teaching "The Hitchhiker" by Lucille Fletcher. This article helps students grasp the concept of the "Golden Age" of radio, and also introduces them to an important historical figure, Orson Welles.

For use with Roald Dahl's "The Landlady". Teaches students about the art of Taxidermy in an engaging way. Works well as a pre-reading activity, and addresses skills in Word Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Greek and Latin Roots, Organizational Text

In this activity, students compare and contrast the two poems, "O'Captain, My Captain" by Walt Whitman and "Frederick Douglass" by Robert Hayden. Discussion and comprehension questions are included. Specific skills targeted include: Vocabulary,

Use these events with a plot mountain to interactively sequence events in Roald Dahl's "The Hitchhiker." Students must use text organizational patterns to place events in chronological order, while correctly identifying the parts of plot

Use this graphic organizer to keep students on task during the reading of "The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. Specific skills targeted include: Symbolism, verbal irony, dramatic irony, situational irony, main idea, mood, and setting.

Use this form as a formative or summative assessment tool to check reading comprehension for any novel. Students are asked to analyze parts of the text (you can customize this based on their curriculum) and respond in a journal format. Works great

Allow your kids to explore a different perspective of The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. Students take the role of a police officer from the story, and formulate a "report" based on what they saw and heard. Rubric is geared toward 6+1.

This document explores Chief Joseph's Lincoln Hall Speech and challenges students to use creativity to explore the conflict from various points of view. A RAFT activity (Role, Audience, Format, Topic) allows students the opportunity to place